But the 32-year-old, who has 2.1 million Instagram followers, had no idea he’d come to be idolized by a subset of teenage boys and young men known as looksmaxxers .
Advertisement“Hardmaxxing,” meanwhile, includes “more extreme ways of going about the way you look,” Shami said, such as getting fillers, botox, and plastic surgery, which he denies having.
Young men are becoming more body-consciousIt’s unclear why looksmaxxing has suddenly become popular.
The rise of looksmaxxing and starvemaxxing could reflect how such concerns are on the rise among young men, too.
All the while, lost young men are left to work out what’s real and what’s trolling.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Business, BI, TikTok, British Nutrition Foundation, Pediatric, University of the, University College London
Locations:
looksmaxxing, Brazil, Brazilian, San Diego, England, Dubai